Recommended by Scott Sickles

I love admin-inspired comedy. Almost as much as I love SUPERNATURAL admin comedy!!! This has that in spades!

What begins as a very funny situation not only evolves into something else even funnier, it explodes in hilarious and unexpected ways! That the play manages to satirize so many things so quickly and still maintain, and even strengthen, its premise, narrative and humor is a miracle to behold. A total hoot!

Kevin King has somehow imagined my ideal night at a gay bar better then I ever could! The initial conversation between the Hot Guys is breathtakingly funny. (Seriously, I was wheezing like Lou Costello several times!) When I show up... oops! I meant when JOSH shows up the story gets deeper while maintaining the funny.

Josh represents how many of us feel - not only about having conventionally imperfect bodies but physical types that skirt fetishism. King shows us a world where the superficial is merely a gateway to a kinder realm. It made me feel better about the world.

Menace. Isolation. Desperation? Or perhaps a simple hope for mercy. Greg Hovanesian creates a palpable dread on the page as one woman in the light confronts voices in the dark. The words are their own music, symphony becomes cacophony, and even without a concrete context, the world of the play closes in. A great creepy experiment!

I have moderated literally hundreds of post-reading talkbacks and the one Williams creates here is nightmarish in all the best ways! The moderator and other respondents in this play get everything wrong which is what's oh so right! As playwrights, we've all been trapped in talkbacks from hell and sometimes we've even been these terrible people. It's filled with truth and the kind of horrorific behavior that makes for great comedy. Terrific roles for actors with brilliant coming timing and impressive breath control!

A jarring look at our nation's flexible morality when it comes to race and nationalism during a time of crisis. In one fell swoop, Gonzales captures an American idealism that becomes twisted and ultimately abandoned.

Perfect. Just perfect. I'm not an actor, yet I want to play The Mortal! As a playwright, I'm insanely jealous I didn't write it, yet *so glad* Maximillian Gill did AND did it with such beautiful pragmatism and romance! He takes a scenario that could have been sketch comedy and, in no time flat, creates one of the most realistic couples you'll ever read facing some pretty fantastical problems in a grounded, humorous, and sweepingly dramatic way. Above all this is a love story of deceptively epic proportions, with a profound affection for detail. Like I said, just perfect!

Delightful pet's-eye view of the pandemic providing a much needed distance that never sacrifices the gravity of the situation. A fun monologue for anyone with a good feline nonchalance.

Torn from the headlines and expanded into a deeply lovely dramatization depicting how global circumstances inspire hope and connect us all through both the risk and the advent of loss. A beautiful dialogue-free ensemble piece.

First off, "Thursday Bugatti" is like the best name ever! The story behind it and the story she tells reveal a macabre pragmatism accompanying a noble ambition. There's a preordained sorrow here that young Thursday intellectually understands in a way that reveals her isolation. Her motives are pure, her goals are deadly, and it all comes from a resonantly sad place. A beauty of a monologue!

It begins with what appears to be a strong sense of nostalgia, given gravity by an honest and palpable sense of loss. Soon, that honestly and gravity unbuttresses the nostalgia forcing it to give way to memory. Martin lays in clues like a mystery writer. The reader furrows a brow, ponders a detail, asks a question. Then, the sky falls. Those who share the speaker's experience will feel a hard-won solidarity. Those who haven't will get a vivid view of a tarnished world.